Group Presentations!

Last time my groups presentation went well. We all did an equal amount of work and were able to cooperate well while using google docs to create it. Personally I had no problems with my group members. However, I could have done a better job at making eye contact with the audience while presenting. I didn't engage the audience members, I was rather blatant and straightforward. I believe I could have done a better job at making the presentation enjoyable. I projected my voice fairly well during the last presentation because every one in the room had been able to hear me. This time for our presentation I will try not to read off of the board too much and I'll try to engage the audience. Making the presentation itself wasn't difficult because my group member and I both put in a fair amount of work and effort while creating it. We gave each other advice on what we needed to work on and improved our writing skills. Each of the slides we created are very brief including bullet points and are comprehensible, seeing as the slides aren't too "flashy." Overall, I plan on improving my presentation skills with help from what I've learned from our last group presentation. 

Wind Turbine Report- Collaborating With My Group!

As you may have read in my recent entries, in engineering class we're currently creating wind turbines. My partner, Tanzim and I have finally completed our design. We've progressed far in the past few weeks, seeing as we're now working on the "designing process" section of our design report. The design report is basically a step by step report on how we created our wind turbine blades, the prototypes, and the conclusions we've made about developing them. Tanzim and I have met on google docs every day and we've been splitting up an equal amount of work for each of the sections. We've been working vigorously and persistently because we felt it'd be best if we took our patience and time while developing this design report so it'd be useful and accurate. We help each other enhance our writing and correct mistakes we've made. My partner's easy to work with and collaborating with him isn't an issue at all, especially since we've worked together before. Overall, using google docs and cooperating with one another hasn't been a problem.

Wind Turbine Blades (Update)

On friday in Engineering Class, Mr. Carpenter had told us to grab white boards and start making notes of things that we've noticed works best for our wind turbine blades throughout our several prototypes. My group had done two different prototypes. One with a blade angled 15 degrees and another with the blade angled negative 15 degrees. By doing so we realized that a blade angled negative 15 degrees works a lot better than a blade angled positive 15 degrees. The difference was small yet significant, a blade angled 15 degrees went .34 mW and a blade angled negative 15 degrees went .37 mW. Therefore, as you can see we came to the conclusion that a blade angled negative 15 degrees works better than one angled positive 15 degrees. Note, negative means it spins counterclockwise and positive means it spins clockwise. Thus, if you plan on creating a wind turbine, it will be more efficient if you make the blades spin counterclockwise as opposed to clockwise. So far, this has been our progression on what we've noticed throughout our many prototypes for this assignment.